spoonfuls Crisco
1 tablespoonful flour
1/2 cupful bean liquor
Salt and pepper to taste
2 eggs
1/4 lb. dried beans
A few cooked mixed vegetables
Breadcrumbs

Soak beans in water twenty-four hours, then boil for several hours
till quite tender, drain them, preserving liquor, chop them very fine;
blend Crisco with flour in saucepan over fire, add bean liquor, beans,
salt and pepper, and yolks of eggs; turn out on to a dish and set
aside till cold. Then cut out with cutlet-cutter or shape with knife;
dip in beaten whites of the eggs, then in fine breadcrumbs, repeat
a second time, and fry in hot Crisco. Serve on hot platter decorated
with a few hot cooked mixed vegetables. Sufficient for eight cutlets.

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Devilled Bananas

2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1/2 teaspoonful salt
8 bananas
1 teaspoonful chopped pickles
Few grains red pepper, or 1 dessertspoonful chopped chillies

Slice bananas, mix with salt, chopped pickles and red pepper or
chopped chillies and put them into hot Crisco. Cook for four minutes
and serve. Sufficient for eight bananas.

Cauliflower Snow

2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
2 cauliflowers
4 poached eggs
Salt and paprika to taste
Toasted bread

Boil cauliflowers in salted water till tender, then drain and set near
fire till quite dry. Remove all green parts and press flower through
a potato ricer upon a hot dish, on which they are to be served. In
no way crush the mass as it falls from the ricer. Sprinkle over with
melted Crisco. Surround dish with poached eggs, each laid upon square
of toasted buttered bread. Dust each egg with salt and a little
paprika. Serve very hot.

Craigie Toast

3 tablespoonfuls Crisco
4 eggs
4 tomatoes
Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cupful milk
Toast
1 teaspoonful chopped gherkin or capers

Skin, seed and chop tomatoes, add eggs well beaten, gherkin, milk,
salt and pepper. Melt Crisco, add other ingredients and stir over fire
till thoroughly hot. Serve at once on toast. The mixture may also be
baked in oven twenty minutes and then garnished with small pieces of
toast. Sufficient for four pieces of toast.

Excellent Lemon Mincemeat

1/2 cupful Crisco
2 large lemons
4 apples
1/4 lb. chopped candied lemon peel
1 lb. currants
1-3/4 cupfuls sugar
1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
1 teaspoonful powdered ginger
1/2 teaspoonful grated nutmeg
1/2 teaspoonful powdere